Contraception

His Grace wrote a pastoral letter to the faithful in his Archdiocese to mark the 30th Anniversary of Pope Paul VI's encyclical "Humanae Vitae" restating the ban on using birth control. It is an excellent document that tries once again to convince those who have closed their hearts to this prophetic teaching.

We recently took part in a discussion group for Catholic married couples. We felt so strongly about the misconceptions the other Catholics had about the Church's teaching on contraception that we provided this written response! It sets out a number of the most common misconceptions about contraception and the Church's teaching and explains the correct position. It's something of an FAQ on Catholic teaching on birth control!

Overpopulation

This is a newswire article reporting that the UN has admitted it had grossly overestimated the increase in the world's population. Sadly, no apology to the children in the Third World who were aborted because of coercive population control measures implemented by the UN or with its blessing because of its alarmist population projections...